On 2006-06-16 22:26:38 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I do not know what "stow" is about, but if it is to allow you to run
> make-install to install things in somewhere else, examine the
> result, and then move the result to the real location (implying that
> you should be able to nuke the "somewhere else" after you have done
> so), with the patch, the above sequence would install the binaries
> pointing at a wrong directory, because the second compilation would
> make them point at the temporary installation directory
> ~/usr/stow/git, not the final location ~/usr/.
GNU stow doesn't move installed programs, it just maintains symlinks
to them. You install programs under /usr/local/stow/foo-4.7.11, and
stow sets up symlinks to them under /usr/local. (So for example,
/usr/local/bin/foo would be a symlink to
/usr/local/stow/foo-4.7.11/bin/foo.) This gives you the ability to
nuke an installed program cleanly. And it just works, pathwise, since
the program remains in its original location.
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Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
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